Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: Marriage alliances among governing families were an important instrument of political integration in Postclassic Mesoamerica, especially in the Mixteca. Alliances among Mixtec nobles persisted during the colonial period, although after the sixteenth century the caciques lost much of their political power to the gobernadores and the Cabildos. In this essay I investigate the significance of alliances among Mixtec caciques through the marriages of eight generations of the Villagómez family of Acatlan and Petlalcingo, from 1669 until the mid-nineteenth century. I argue that only the first of these marriages was politically strategic.
Source: Anuario de Estudios Americanos
Author: John K. Chance
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4230418262